blackswaneuroparedux:Courage is the price that life exacts for…

blackswaneuroparedux:

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace, the soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.

– Amelia Earhart

Although there is a tribal rivalry between the Royal Air Force and the Army Air Corps, there has always been a healthy mutual respect between the two service arms. These days they often work together in joined up operations, at least they were starting to during my time with the AAC. Inter
service banter is part of life in the military. Every unit thinks it’s
the best and will take the piss out of other ones. It is part of what
creates a strong identity and family bond within a unit, and what keeps
you fighting for each other. But taking the piss out of the RAF is not only a past time with the army but also a pleasure.

One doing the rounds about the RAF went like this: During Tri-Service orders, the General tells the assembly, “Go and secure three hotels in town.“The
British Army duly formed up an assault team and cordon party, sealed
off the hotel, blew the doors in and cleared each floor, room by room.The
Royal Navy sent out a shore patrol and entered the hotel, shut all of
the windows, turned off all the lights and locked the doors.The Royal Air Force sent an officer and accountant and booked all of the rooms for a month with an option to purchase.

The RAF called us ‘pongos’. For that reason alone we were obligated to take the piss out of them: How do RAF aircrew commit suicide? They jump off their ego onto their IQ. Or this one: What do RAF aircrew use as contraception? Their personalities. It was too easy to wind them up.